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WITTGENSTEIN, LANGUAGE, AND POWER A Conversation With Ruper Read

Political Philosophy Podcast

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The Real Difficulties of Philosophy for Wittgenstein

Once you just let that idea loosen your mind, and you let it loose on everything else, including moral and political concepts, that is just an astoundingly useful bit of software to have running in your brain. So this is where I'm going to reference what I just said earlier, is I take all of your cautionary notes on board, but with that said, once you justLetThatIdea loosen your mind,. You don't need to be particularly clever to get that. Well, that's right, there is a sense in which much of what Wittgenstein has to offer - even of the early philosophy -- doesn't require cleverness. What it requires, which is

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